Jaycee Would Probably Testify, Lawyer Says

Attorney for Family: Dugard Would "In All Likelihood" Take Stand Against Accused Abductors Phillip and Nancy Garrido

(CBS)  Jaycee Dugard has been in seclusion since her 18-year kidnapping ordeal ended a month ago.

Dugard, 29, has been surrounded by her two daughters, her mother, her sister (who was just one when Jaycee was abducted) and other family members, and has been undergoing psychological counseling.

Very little is known about how she and her family have been coping, and about her nearly two decades in captivity since she was grabbed from a bus stop in broad daylight in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. in 1991, allegedly by Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido.

Both have pleaded not guilty to charges including kidnapping and rape. Authorities say Garrido fathered Jaycee's two daughters, who are now 15 and 11.

The Garridos are accused of keeping Jaycee and her daughters in a backyard maze of tens and sheds all these years, at their Antioch, Calif. home.

Investigators have combed the Garrido home and backyard for signs of two other abducted girls, Michaela Garecht, who was nine when taken in 1988, and Ilene Misheloff, who was 13 when she was grabbed in 1989.

Now, a lawyer hired by Jaycee's family says she would probably testify against the Garridos when the time comes.

"I'm confident in saying that, if this case does proceed to trial, Jaycee will, in all likelihood, be a witness for the prosecution," McGregor Scott told "Early Show" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez. "She's aware of that, and understands that. That day is a long ways away from right now, so she's got a lot of time to continue with the mending and the healing and the rehabilitation she's going through now."

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Jaycee's mother, Terry Probyn, has issued a statement saying, "All of us are doing very well under the circumstances. What we need most right now is to be allowed to become a family again within a zone of privacy and security."

Scott told Rodriguez privacy is a primary concern of the family's, but Jaycee's relatives also want her case to give hope and encouragement to other families of abducted children.

Scott says Jaycee is doing "remarkably well," under the circumstances:


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[larrythecheeto]

It disgusts me to think what she went through all those years, and how many other girls he may have kidnapped. Though I'm glad we live in a civilized society, cases like this make one wish for old forms of punishment. My only consolation is that he'll be set into general population in prison.

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[SometimeIneedtoexpress]

Prison Inmates thoroughly hate child molesters. Those are the people
that will, I am sure, welcome him to the life that he deserves to have - constantly making sure that he understands what it is like to be held captive - never knowing whether each new day will be his last -
because they will definitely make him wish he were dead. There will be
no need to give him the death penalty, just let the prisoners do it the
way that someone like him deserves...

[pandamonium6]

I think that keeping him in solitary confinment is fine as long as it is outside, in a tent with no electricity or plumbing. Let him spend the rest of his life living as he made Jaycee live.

[SometimeIneedtoexpress]

I totally agree koyt2, Satan would probably welcome this peice of
****. But before he goes on to his just rewards, a judge and jury
should make it mandatory for him to be sentenced to being released
into Prison Population. I feel certain that he would face a slow
tortured death and thereby save the cost of a leathal injection. Only
then could he know that his God will welcome him to his just reward -
Burn in Hell - Garrido - you do not deserve a lethal injection - (much
too easy!!!

[koyt2]

The death penalty would be too easy for this child molesting bastard. I hope while in prison the inmates make him pay for his deeds

[kcits]

He will probably be placed in protective custody. His crimes are looked down upon even by criminals. Abusers are therefore abused in jail. I honestly wish he would be released into the population to pay for his crimes at the hands of inmates, but in reality it wont happen.